Pocket stay and holder



(ModeL) B. E. TILDEN.

POCKET STAY AND HOLDER. No. 367.939. Pate nted Aug. 9, 1887.,

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POCKET STAY PATENT OFFICE.

YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.

AND HOLDER. 1

. SPEC IFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,939, dated'August 9, 1887.

Application filed September 6, 1586. Serial No. 212,854. (Model) To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, BURT E. TILDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Youngs town, in the county of Mahoning and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful article of manufacture to stay the mouth of pockets in clothing in place and to secure articles therein, which 1 term a Pocket Stay and Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new article to stay the outside or part of pockets that is in sight, and the surrounding cloth to its place as finished, by pressing, and retain articles in pockets, and at all times holding pockets from gaping or being picked. It can be instantly adjusted to any size and form of pocket that is agreeable during the life of the garment, adding to the appearance about the pocket and protecting the wearer against the loss of articles carried therein. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the ac companying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal View of my novel device with adjusting or tension ends; Fig. 2, a front View showing hoop or U-shaped attachment and recesses or flattened parts that slide through hook. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal view having but one adjusting or tension end. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal view of a form without adjusting or tension ends. Fig. 5 is one side, to be used through welt 'at top of pocket alone. Fig. 6 exhibits longitudinal front views of the device and a gentlemans vest, showing by dotted lines my stay and holders in place at the pockets. I

,In making my stay and holder in these varied forms I take spring metal, wire, or hoop, stiff brass in round form being preferable, of suitable size and bend,with suitable machinery, so as to .form pocket stay and holders, as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, curvilinear at all points and bent to form two nearly parallel lines, the wire being connected near the ends by my new safety-pin catch or lock, that can be worn, as shown in Fig. 6 by dotted lines, upon and outside the pocket. The horizontal recesses, or flattening near the point, and the sharpening is done either by heating and pressing or filing cold.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the varied forms.

-The stay and holders shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 are inwardly concave and outwardly convex. Parts 0 and E spring either way in curves parallel from B to D. The tension ends run obliquely from B to X at one end and from D to X at the other end. The hook G H admits wire only of its own size. The wire from near point A is flattened, extending toward 0 as far as it is necessary to permit it to slip through the hook. Just back of the sharpened point, nearA, the wire is full size,forminga diamondshaped speai head. Thus the wire will pass freely through the hook where it is flattened, but the hook will lock with the spear-head point. Therefore these devices are self-locking safety-pins or pocket stays and holders. They are put on ready-made clothing from the inside point, A making its way by punching through lining, then between thicknesses of cloth at top outside part of pocket until part D comes to welt, or two thicknesses of cloth and part A has come back through lining to inside again at the opposite corner of pocket from where it entered, in order that hook G H can hook around between A and B; or point A can be allowed to remain between lining and cloth after coming out of welt, and obtuse angle D, that fits the'other top corner of pocket. Hook G H should be punched through lining to angle F. Then by springing B toward F hook G H will hook around between A B in the fiattened place. Point A cannot pull through hook G H,'which makes a lock to this or any safety-pin. Figs. 1, 2, and 3 are adjustable by parts at right ends D to X and at left ends B to X by making these parts long when great spread of pockets is required, and by small rubber bands being shoved around from end X toward D and B when greater stiffness is required. Hoop attachment J (shown in Fig. 2) may be attached to wire E, Figs. 1, 3, and

4:; but it is seldom required. The single wire point A, Fig. 5, goes through the welt at top of pocket. Then it is bent near B inwardly to form a clasp similar in shape to that at other I Fig. 6 is to illustrate the manner of use. The

stay and holders in the garment being entirely out of sight, and going around the pocket between the double cloth at top, working auto matically when pockets are being inflated, articles are held in the pocket by stay and holders gripping the mouth of pocket together, which is done without wrinkling the cloth.

At K K is shown by dotted lines how tension ends may be turned right angles at the top corners of the pockets, or may extend any length parallel with the side of pockets, to give any spread of pockets required, the tension ends being formed by doubling the wire to run obliquely to itself, thus leaving'spaee for classticity.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combined pocket stay and holder consisting of the curved wire or hoop E, the similarly-curved wire or hoop G, parallel with E, except the part included within the adjusting or tension ends, the tension ends formed by doubling the wire to run obliquely to itself, thus leaving intervals for elasticity, and the hook F G H, all substantially as set forth.

2. In a pocket stay and holder or safety-pin substantially as described, consisting of a single piece of spring metal, the one end terminating in hook G H and the other end of the wire or hoop terminating in spear-head point A, having a narrow neck or flattened portion behind it,which interlocks with the hook G H, substantially as illustrated, and for the purpose described.

Youngstown, Ohio, September 3, 1886.

BURT TILDEN. lVitnesses:

M. LIVINGSTON, JoHN H. CLARKE. 

